ZUPLAR INVASION - GAME OVER - TOWN WIN

Nottykitten

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I realised that every word in this text was using a different, but the important thing is that within the same word, the same letter would be encoded the same way. I suppose that's what notty did which led her to "hallucinations", "unconscious" and "understanding". There was another long word in the text separated with a hyphen, so assuming that it was all encrypted the same way I did a dictionary search on it and it returned "chemically-induced" almost immediately with 99.3% certainty.

The same applied to "occupants", "species", "conscious", "thoughts" and "presence". There were two long words which I couldn't decipher with a dictionary attack alone, one of which I was able to determine using context. The other one, though, which was a 10 letter word with no letter repetitions, couldn't be deciphered even with context-filling as it was a sentence on its own. All the other blue words were filled in based on grammar or context.
Wow you're secretly a genius. Mind telling me how/where you did the dictionary search for it?

Also Weak your guesses seem pretty probable, any guesses for the other words?
 

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Also I wonder if there is any logic behind this encryption, or if it's really just a random encryption per word. Because the fact that the same letters get the same symbols(in a singular word) seems to suggest there is some method of logic behind it that we could uncover. Instead of decrypting the unknown words, I'm currently trying to figure out how the normal words that we already uncovered(such as unconscious and conscious) were encrypted into those symbols. Since maybe if I can figure out the encryption method it could probably be decrypted aswell.
 

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[Triple post, and quadra incoming once I'm done decrypting them!]

It believe, if I shift a word 14 places and then translate them with table #2 from my post, it'll give me the symbols used in the image. Thnx line #2 and #3. I'll get right onto decrypting the messages!
(or every word has a different shift, but it'll just be brute force try all 26 possible shifts)
 

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Who needs a special ability pffft. So what I did was I wrote down all symbols using the second table from my 'how did I decrypt line #2 and #3' post. Then I looked at all 26 shift posibilities, and chose the one that gave me a word. And that's how I decrypted line #1 and Enders death message.

Here is it in non-shifted letters for who is curious:
NPPBEQVAT BW OHJHQG, MRFCP LIXVBXL’ QCBGQWCIG JWM YRGSRWGMSYW SGNTFGSR ULY PUUTRIUS LI XNRUQD THE KMZNZIXZ EV ZFC XGIK. ESFBNT, JECDPIWNAO, TYVDZTRCCP-ZEULTVU TMXXGOUZMFUAZE, ZHPK VQ ELIA LZW CBJRE NWZ XQGHUVWDQGLQJ BYLECP BG HVSWF ANJUV.

QVZVGEV IDWLIAPBI WKH KCBGA. FTR QVCCGS J TPECIV ZS HCABN ID ZBYDOMD FSI/TW HEAL OCZH VEH ESLE TOMNZ.

Then the translation is as following for line #1:
ACCORDING TO LEGEND, OTHER SPECIES’ CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS THOUGHTS ARE AFFECTED BY SIMPLY THE PRESENCE OF OUR RACE. DREAMS, NIGHTMARE, CHEMICALLY-INDUCES HALLUCINATIONS, SAID TO HOLD THE POWER FOR UNDERSTANDING DANGER IN THEIR REALM.

For Enders death message which is called 'RIP the doctor':
DIMITRI AVODASHTA THE MEDIC. MAY CHOOSE A PLAYER AT NIGHT TO PROTECT AND/OR HEAL THEM FOR THAT NIGHT.
 

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For Enders death message which is called 'RIP the doctor':
DIMITRI AVODASHTA THE MEDIC. MAY CHOOSE A PLAYER AT NIGHT TO PROTECT AND/OR HEAL THEM FOR THAT NIGHT.
Is it just me, or does this reveal the possibility of a role who can poison or effect a player due to the use of the 'Protect and/or heal them'? I mean what other effects would need a 'heal'?
 

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Then the translation is as following for line #1:
ACCORDING TO LEGEND, OTHER SPECIES’ CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS THOUGHTS ARE AFFECTED BY SIMPLY THE PRESENCE OF OUR RACE. DREAMS, NIGHTMARE, CHEMICALLY-INDUCES HALLUCINATIONS, SAID TO HOLD THE POWER FOR UNDERSTANDING DANGER IN THEIR REALM
Great work with the translation, and it looks like it is correct.



Here is it in non-shifted letters for who is curious:


For Enders death message which is called 'RIP the doctor':
DIMITRI AVODASHTA THE MEDIC. MAY CHOOSE A PLAYER AT NIGHT TO PROTECT AND/OR HEAL THEM FOR THAT NIGHT.[/QUOTE]

That's ironic, he could save others from death, but not himself.
 

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Another thing I wonder. What are those helix looking things? The appear horizontally (which has previously been interpreted as a dash), vertically, and diagonally (which has been interpreted as a slash)

The horizontal one was interpreted as a letter in Ender's death message, but the vertical one doesn't make any sense to me, as it comes after the last period.
 

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ACCORDING TO LEGEND, OTHER SPECIES’ CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS THOUGHTS ARE AFFECTED BY SIMPLY THE PRESENCE OF OUR RACE. DREAMS, NIGHTMARE, CHEMICALLY-INDUCES HALLUCINATIONS, SAID TO HOLD THE POWER FOR UNDERSTANDING DANGER IN THEIR REALM.


#2: ONE RECORDED EXAMPLE OF A MEMBER OF A DIFFERENT SPECIES EXPERIENCING THIS PHENOMENON DETAILED HOW, IN HALLUCINATIONS, THINGS OF NATURE - WATER, FIRE, AIR, LIFE AND DEATH - REPRESENTED AND WERE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE *GOOD*.

#3: THINGS UNNATURAL - THE CONSTRUCTED, BUILDINGS, TECHNOLOGY - REPRESENTED AND WERE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE *EVIL*. WHILST IT IS UNKNOWN EXACTLY WHAT SPECIES THIS ACCOUNT BELONGED TO, IT IS BELIEVED THAT, DUE TO THEIR PHYSICAL SHAPE, VOCAL QUALITIES AND EXHIBITED THOUGHT PATTERNS, THEY WERE A MEMBER OF THE HUMAN RACE.
I wonder what affect, if any, this has on the game.
 

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Another thing I wonder. What are those helix looking things? The appear horizontally (which has previously been interpreted as a dash), vertically, and diagonally (which has been interpreted as a slash)

The horizontal one was interpreted as a letter in Ender's death message, but the vertical one doesn't make any sense to me, as it comes after the last period.
Im assuming the one at the end of Enders death message as a '!'. I don't know what the helix one was though. I left it out, but it is in front of the word 'may'.

Also notty can you go into a bit more detail about this?
I'd like to know if anyone besided me knows anything about the devil, or about disappearing tattoos.
 

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Another thing I wonder. What are those helix looking things? The appear horizontally (which has previously been interpreted as a dash), vertically, and diagonally (which has been interpreted as a slash)

The horizontal one was interpreted as a letter in Ender's death message, but the vertical one doesn't make any sense to me, as it comes after the last period.
Could it be a bracket?

I'd like to know if anyone besided me knows anything about the devil, or about disappearing tattoos.
What? I swear this game you have just been chucking in these random points and hoping for the best xD
 

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Nothing really particular. Never got a response out of Vino last day, so I thought I'd do it again. Did not really have an other person in mind to vote just yet.
Going back to this for a moment...
He voted for himself and you joined in right after than on day zero. It should be safely assumed that was a joke?

And exactly what sort of a response were you expecting anyways? You didn't accuse him of anything, or ask any questions, you just voted.

VOTE VINO


Always love me some day-0 lynching, works great everytime. Altough it does appear to not happen, I agree with Vino.

Unvote

VOTE VINO
before you say "you voted for notty for no reason too" I also explicitly stated (or at least attempted to) that it was a meaningless vote, and am not continuing it on an actual serious day
 

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The 'just because' type of response. I feel like I have been on the other side of this conversation several times, and at this stage it was just a random vote. I decided to vote Vino again, because I had no clue who to vote actually and just decided to continue with the vote I made yesterday.
 

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I was visited by a PR last night but im not sure if i should out him for his own sake. If he claims though ill confirm his claim.
Roleblock with a name reveal (Drunk man?)
So, there's a drunk man which can roleblock someone, in the trade of his name and role. Isn't that a very risky role? I mean, if he is town, he would try to roleblock a mafia player to decrease mafias chances of winning. However, then the mafias know who the drunk man is and can easily kill him the night after. To me it seems like a risky town move, at least for the first day.
 

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So, there's a drunk man which can roleblock someone, in the trade of his name and role. Isn't that a very risky role? I mean, if he is town, he would try to roleblock a mafia player to decrease mafias chances of winning. However, then the mafias know who the drunk man is and can easily kill him the night after. To me it seems like a risky town move, at least for the first day.
I'll be honest I get mafia vibes from this post. Probably because you seem to imply the person shouldn't of used their action night 1 as it possibly reveals themselves to the Mafia, but not using an action is alot worse than blocking a Mafia member. I don't have any other suspicions really sooo

Vote Unusual
 
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